@SciShow (Psych.) & @PsychCentral @nnlmAoU @CANBIND reminds me to Try Not to #Ruminate (Break My Bad Habit of Depressing #Rumination)

First, SciShowPsych's video

I may not have been "diagnosed" with depression; it's more like 'I'm "afflicted" with lots of depressing circumstances,' and I focus too much on the negative connotations I invent when I judge their actions from a limited perspective.

I noticed recently (or my 'therapist' pointed-out, as she sometimes has a very similar problem too and gets through it in much the same way I hope to) that I frequently 'judge myself' according to others' focus on 'people who aren't me 😭🤣.' As Hank (above) mentions at about 6:45, I'll "Ruminate" (on some Self-Blame).

A lot of terms in the video above also seem worth 'a little more focus' later. But first, the 'built' word below—there might be something more to that word ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which the our lexicon stands ...

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The word “Ruminate” is built on “|Gullet, to Chew the Cud” (to |Turn Over in the Mind).

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The bad habit I'm talking-about? When conversing with friends, sometimes other matters will draw their attention away. And–rather than turning my own attention with theirs or waiting patiently for their attention to come back to our conversation–I'll 'cut myself off' with some belittling comment ('Oh, that's okay ... I'm nothing important, etc.')

Perhaps I make those statements with the expectation that the friends will hear me & correct the thinking, but I'm too 'soft-spoken' for my friends to hear anything to correct (I'm told I have a loud personality, but ... I guess just not a lot of practice switching from 'person-to-person' to 'in a crowd'-volumes).

Anyway, the 'chew the cud'-root kind-of shows what's bad about 'ruminating over false perspectives (wherein I perceive others' emergencies to have anything to do with my personal importance)'—digesting 'incomplete nutrients' gives one serious bouts of 'indigestion' (basing beliefs on partial information leaves one's mind underfed).

Some other words SciShowPsych mentions:

Depression, Psychologists, Mental Health, Antidepressants, DSM (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders), Symptoms, Sadness (Numbness), Lack of Pleasure, Feeling Worthless, Serotonin (Neuro-Transmitter released into the Synapses), SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors ... Prozac, Zoloft), |Amygdala, |Hippocampus, Brain-Growth, Genetics/Gene-|Sequences/Gene-Variants (like CYP2D6), |Treatment, Fatigue (a symptom, like), Hopelessness, Guilt, |Memory-Problems, Self-Blame, |Morality, Social |Appropriateness, Thought-Patterns, Anxiety, |Cognitive Resources, Anger, |Irritability, Faulty |Coping-|Mechanism (what |Rumination is), Therapy, |Meta-|Analysis, Placebo, Study-Prescription vs. Doctor/Patient (Personalized) Prescription, Environmental-Factors, CAN-BIND (Canadian |Biomarker |Integration Network in |Depression), |Response, |Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT, which increases activity in the Pre|frontal |Cortex), GUIDED (Genomics Used to Improve DEpression |Decisions)

Or maybe I'm looking at it wrong—that's one reason
 Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
 alone":  "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows

 him why he's not"—Won't you show me
 if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?

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